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From: terry@julia.math.ucla.edu
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Subject: need directory pruner
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Date: 29 Aug 90 19:08:08 GMT
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Reply-To: terry@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Terence J. McKiernan)
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Hi, netlanders!

I am looking for a program that will let me wipe out a whole hard disk 
very quickly.  I don't want to have to wipe out each individual file 
(a la a UNIX rm -r) or reformat the disk -- both of these options take
too long and are error-prone.  What would be ideal is something that
would just replace the root directory FAT with an empty one.  Also, 
I want this to be done from a batch file, not interactively.

I looked at PCMAG's PRUNE program, which prunes directory trees, but
it is interactive (imagine that!), and it won't prune the root.  I 
also checked out TREESURG, but it's not what I want either.

Does anybody know of a PD or shareware program that does this, and 
where I can get it, or of some method using standard DOS programs?

Please e-mail your responses and I will post a summary.  Thanks!

>>> terry <<<